99032 - GERMAN LITERATURE

Learning outcomes

The course provides students with historical and literary knowledge of 20th and 21st century German literature and teaches them how to critically analyze literary texts. By the end of the course, students will acquire the basic elements (content and methodology) for an analysis of German culture and literature, with particular reference to the relationship between literary texts and history, language and the arts. They will know and be able to use critical methodologies to read and analyze literary texts and will be able to independently elaborate further cultural and literary notions and apply them to a wide range of other literary texts.

Course contents

The short story in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Its form and development

The Course is set up as an introduction to the genre of the short story in Germany. It will cover texts from the end of World War II to the present day. Major writers will be introduced and some of their short stories will be analyzed in depth. The course aims to give students a detailed overview of this literary tradition that is fundamental to Germany's literary history. A further aim of the course will be to develop an appropriate approach to interpreting texts of a given genre and reading them critically. Finally, additional suggestions will be given for further study of the subject.

Readings/Bibliography

Verranno letti e interpretati i testi di seguenti autori: Wolfgang Borchert, Elisabeth Langgässer; Heinrich Böll, Hermann Kasack, Siegfried Lenz, Kurt Marti, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Ilse Aichinger, Thomas Mann, Peter Bichsel, Thomas Bernhard, Jakob Arjouni, Bernhard Schlink.

Barner, Wilfried (ed.) (2006): History of German Literature from 1945 to the Present. Munich.

Durzak, Manfred (2002): The German Short Story of the Present. Author portraits, workshop discussions, interpretations. Würzburg.

Marx, Leonie (2005): The German short story. Stuttgart/Weimar

Teaching methods

The teaching of the course will use in part (especially at the beginning) classroom lectures alternating (at a later stage) with moments of direct experimentation by students obtained through the production of papers to be discussed in the classroom.

The teaching and learning process is dynamic and requires the active participation of the student.

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Assessment methods

The exam-which has only an oral mode in all sessions-will cover the topics covered during the semester. The final assessment will check whether the whole and complex activity, as well as the way it was organized and the resources that were employed, enabled the full achievement of predefined goals above.

Teaching tools

Teaching is supported by new media (e.g., audio and video podcasts) and powerpoint presentations. All materials used during lectures and useful for exam preparation will be uploaded as pdf files or Mp3 files and will be accessible online on the IOL platform.

Office hours

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